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title: Peter could be exceeding polite also, having learned the grand manne… — Peter Pan · tree and pragmatics
description: Peter could be exceeding polite also, having learned the grand manner at fairy ceremonies, and he rose and bowed to her beautifully. Who acts: Peter, having. A sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Peter Pan, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!, sentence 24

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Peter could be exceeding polite also, having learned the grand manner at fairy ceremonies, and he rose and bowed to her beautifully.

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**Who acts:** Peter, having · **What happens:** exceed, have, learn, rise, bow · **To what, where:** grand manner, fairy ceremonies, Wendy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter III. COME AWAY, COME AWAY!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, having), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg16:4:24
# text = Peter could be exceeding polite also, having learned the grand manner at fairy ceremonies, and he rose and bowed to her beautifully.
1	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
9	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	ceremonies	ceremony	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exceed** | could · progressive | Peter |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **learn** | past | having | the grand manner |  | fairy ceremonies |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manner=Topic |
| 4 | **rise** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bow** | past | Peter *not said here* |  | Wendy |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to she=Pivot |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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